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Who Binds You?
Who binds you? A monk asked Seng ts’an, “Master, show me the way to liberation.” Seng ts’an replied, “Who binds you?” The monk responded, “No one binds me.” Seng ts’an said, “Then why do you seek...
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Not a single inch of grass
“The Master, addressing the assembly, said, “Brothers, it is the beginning of autumn, and the end of summer. You may go east or west, but you should go only to a place where there is not a single inch...
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Your Muse. She prefers sweat.
“Is this magic? A miracle? No, it’s common as dirt. It’s how creativity works. We show up. We do our best. Good things happen. This is the intersection of Hard Work and Inspiration. When we say “Put...
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Mihály Csíkszentmihályi would say…go with the Flow.
“We say to the confused, Know thyself, as if knowing yourself was not the fifth and most difficult of human arithmetical operations, we say to the apathetic, Where there’s a will, there’s a way, as if...
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The Yin: “I want to” and “I need to”. Now to the Yang.
What I want to say to you, my dear, is this: Just for today, live the passionate truth of who you are. Stop looking at what is undone, what you haven’t achieved, where you’ve fallen short. Look,...
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Feel it. In both directions.
I like swimming against the current, but only because it makes me feel I’ve earned the ease and pleasure of floating back to where I started. ~ Jan Heller Levi, from “Conversation,” Once I Gazed at...
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Sunday Morning: Be a Seashell
I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This chalice, subtly shaped by some divine intelligence to allow water to...
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